
Jeremiah Haas: Tactics for hunting turkeys in the wind
Spring turkey hunting around the Quad Cities can be anything from 70s and ticks, to 20s and snow. I have been successful in both situations and I am an average turkey hunter at best. The

Spring turkey hunting around the Quad Cities can be anything from 70s and ticks, to 20s and snow. I have been successful in both situations and I am an average turkey hunter at best. The

After 25 years in law enforcement, people often ask me what to do when an officer checks them in the field. With the rise of Internet videos showing poor law enforcement interactions, I can say

I see a lot of things on social media that surprise me but nothing as shocking as what I saw on my Facebook feed on a recent day. It blew me away. It was from

This may seem a tad early, especially for my northern friends, but after watching the weather forecast for southern Illinois on a recent morning, I can feel in my mushroom ‘spidey sense’ that things are

A new book by a well-known southern Illinois angler is designed to share tactics and strategies for catching fish at the bottom of the state.
Colby Simms shares secrets he’s gleaned from years of

A new Prairie Research Institute study found that many commercial seed mixes used to conserve and restore prairies may not have enough diversity or spring flowering plants to fully support pollinators.
“Imagine being an

At the end of most summers, Illinois squirrel hunters and deer hunters scouting locations for the upcoming bow season often find carcasses of whitetails that have fallen victim to Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease (EHD).
A

People in Illinois who don’t fish or hunt aren’t likely to be as disturbed as the rest of us about the state handing over Shabbona Lake State Recreation Area.
That’s because they haven’t invested

Numbers just released by the state’s newest venison donation network puts perspective on the impact of deer hunting in Illinois.
During the 2024-25 season, Hunters Feeding Illinois distributed 25,794 pounds of deer meat to
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